New York Review Books Classics My Dog Tulip: Movie Tie-In Edition, (Paperback)

from ffortsa

I found this slim volume on the swap shelves in my building's laundry, and had some memory of the title. It has proven to be a charming, grave, funny history of a man observing his dog, trying to do the best for her, often with deadpan hilarity. He observes her devotion, her eliminations, worries...

from OmieWise

I was underwhelmed. I love a good book about dogs, and this promised to be one, but was only a middling book about dogs. [My pleasure in this book is much greater after reading Ackerley's fictional treatment in "We Think The World Of You." In many ways that book improved this one, primarily by pr...

from OmieWise

I was underwhelmed. I love a good book about dogs, and this promised to be one, but was only a middling book about dogs. [My pleasure in this book is much greater after reading Ackerley's fictional treatment in "We Think The World Of You." In many ways that book improved this one, primarily by pr...

from keneumey

I think any writer who is in love with his dog wants to put into words how beautiful the animal is, and do justice to every expression and behavior.I was completely charmed by Ackerley's account of his dog Tulip. Some critics on Amazon were repulsed by his romanticized description of Tulip's geni...

from lisapeet

I can see how it would put some people off, consumed as it is with Tulip's bathroom and sexual habits, flowing from this borderline-obsessive relationship to the dog in question. But that's why I liked it so much. It spoke to that very consuming aspect of love for an animal-a dog in particular-an...